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scotianostra · 2 years

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Thomas Sean Connery was born in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh on 25th August, 1930.

Big Tam, as he was affectionately known around Fountainbridge in his youth, well he was Tommy until his teens, when he shot up in height and stature, at one point he entered a bodybuilding contest, he was 6'2″ at the time, weighed around 14 stone, had a 48-inch chest, 25-inch thigh, and his arms were 15.25 inches.

His first job was as a milkman with the St Cuthbert’s Co-Operative Society in Edinburgh. I would think he would have delivered the milk on a horse drawn carriage, the stables for these horses was in the are he grew up, were in Grove Street, where I used to live the main offices for St Cuthbert’s still stands round the corner on Fountainbridge.

Connery also played football at junior level for Bonnyrigg Rose, my cousin played for them too for several years.

A few more facts about Sean are he has a tattoo on his arm that state “Scotland Forever” he got when he enrolled in the Merchant Navy, he was discharged from that job due to stomach ulcers, between jobs he was a nude model for art students at Edinburgh College of art, again not to far from Fountainbridge. Other jobs he took up were, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths,a labourer and a coffin polisher!

I think it is interesting Connery never strayed far from Fountainbridge in his younger days, indeed when he decided that acting was a career he was going to pursue, it was the nearby Kings Theatre he got a job helping backstage, he was also competing in bodybuilding competitions at this time and while at an event in London he learned that there were auditions being held for South Pacific, he was picked to appear on the chorus line but as the production toured the country he was making his way up the ladder.

By the time it hit Edinburgh he had the part of Marine Cpl Hamilton Steeves and was understudying two of the juvenile leads, and his salary was raised from £12 to £14–10s a week, when the production was reprised the following year he had the lead role on the tour, taking over from the actor Larry Hagman, who played the part in London’s West End.

Connery never looked back from there and of course the role of James Bond catapulted him to international stardom, Ian Fleming though was against him getting the part initially, he said Sean was “unrefined” and not what he had in mind, Sean soon won him over though and Fleming later admitted he was an “ideal” Bond.

A few of the parts Sean either didn’t get or turned down are Gandalf, in the Lord of the Rings series of films, he said he never understood the books and also wasn’t keen on 18 months of filming in New Zealand. He also turned down the chance to play the role of the Architect in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Sean was asked to portray King Edward I in Braveheart, but was too busy working on Another film at the time, Patrick McGoohan took the role instead, I’m sort of glad he never played Longshanks.

His 93rd and last film was 2003’s The League of Extraordinary Gentleman - although he officially retired in 2006, although he was temporarily tempted back to do the voice of Sir Billi in the animated adventure comedy of the same name.

Sir Sean Connery passed away in his sleep on 31st October 2020 at his home in the Bahamas, his son said he had been unwell for some time. The official cause of death was pneumonia, heart failure and old age, his death certificate revealed.

In a career spanning over 50 years, Connery earned an Academy Award, multiple Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille and Henrietta Awards, as well as two British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) awards.

#Scotland #scottish #sean connery #007 #james bond #Edinburgh #actor #producer #films #television #RIP

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crusherthedoctor · 2 days

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Here are some prediction for future castings in the movies:

Silver: Tobey Maguire

Erazor: Tim Curry

Infinite: Willem Dafoe

Metal Sonic: Robert Patrick

Zazz: Mark Hamill

Mephiles: Steven Seagul

oh i get it, cause seagal is also all talk, what a brilliant jojoke

Those are all good, but we can't forget Sean Connery (RIP) as Heavy King, Vincent Price (RIP) as King Boom Boo, Mr. T as Metal Knuckles, Jerry Seinfeld as Charmy, John Cleese as Professor Pickle, and of course, ImJayStation as The End.

#Crusher's Asks #Sonic the Hedgehog #Voice Actors

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popculturebuffet · 1 year

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Indy Prelude: Carl Barks; The Seven Cities of Cibola! (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy adventuerers!

Since I last covered duck comics. While Disney Ducks built this fine institution the fact is other disney properties, other cartoons and comics in general, and general nonsense have simply take up more of my time. But it's always good to return home and just in time as this is also a prelude to something duck adjacent. a franchise that may not exist without good ole scrooge mcduck.

Yup just in time for Dial of Destiny we're taking a look at the indiana jones film quintology! From one of the most loved films of all time with too many quotable lines to count and more nazi's turned to goo than you can shake a staff of ra at, to it's divsive followup featuring the most iconic heart ripping in human history, a future oscar winner, and the directors wife, to the film almost as iconic as the original with sir sean connery, holy grails and more nazis, and all the way into that fourth film what people don't like to talk about with nuclear explosions, greasers, communists and actual cannibal Shia Lebouf, cumulating in a film I.. don't have a ton of antedotes about because it hasn't come out yet? Indy punches a protester and deals with the horrifying consequences of age and america working with the nazis? I dunno, i'm just excited, kev's excited and hopefully you are.

I'm dead serious about Scrooge being part of the reason Indy exists though. While sadly not coming up in the fablemans, though likely because it might've been a bit too much of a LOOK LOOK SEE THE THING THAT WILL MAKE HIM FAMOUS LATER moment the film honestly avoided so I can respect the decision, Young Stevie was a huge fan of Scrooge McDuck, to the point his future succesful self did a forward for one of the many carl barks collections. It's not the only influence and i'm sure as I research Raiders, i'll no doubt find tons more direct ones, but it is a notable one that gets brought up quite a bit and it's easy to see why: Scrooge too is a globetrotting adventurer who has a successful day job (If a far less modest one), cares deeply about the history of what he finds, is a tad gruff, verbally pars with most love intrests, and takes the quick solution when it makes sense, so it's easy to see the compassions. The two are still different enough: Indy isn't in it for the money, generally adventures because he has to not for the thrill like scrooge, and Scrooge's only child we know of isn't a massive embarrassment, but you can still see how it left a mark and see Barks attention to culture, love of slow adventure, and humor in Indy.

That and one certain scene we'll get into in the comic is the direct inspiration for one of the most iconic scenes in film history.. but we'll get for that. For now we're taking a look at one fo the most legendary stories in the duck canon and seeing how it holds up, this is the Seven Citeis of Cibola!

We begin with what you all came to see

It's a neat enough visual gag and a reminder to me that most scrooge stories.. really didn't open with the big splash pages i'm used to in comics nor an actual story title

Though Barks still makes the best of it with the sight gag of Scrooge lieterally bathing in money. The setup to this one is brilliant too: Scrooge reflects on the fact he's got his feathers in just about every industry imaginable. Cannaries, Fisheries, Newspapers, Horse Races, Bibble Removal, Steam Cleaning, Steamed Hams, baseball, both kinds of football, mega football, calvinball, horeshoes, unicorn shoes, abestos, tabacco, cultural apporiation, robots, Goat Cheese Pizza, getting the cool shoeshine universal solvent, fishmobabywhirlmagigs, Spam, Crackers and Milk, Breaking Cat News, allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters, trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods, water meters, walke-talkies, copper wires, saftey googles, radial tiers, bb pellets, rubber mallets, fans , dehumidifiers, picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters, paint removers, window louves, masking tape, plastic gutters, kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables, hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power fogers, spoons and ladles, pesticides for fumigation, high peformance lubircation, metal roofing, water proofing, multi purpose insulation, air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors, tire gagues, hamster cages, thermostats, bug deflectors, trailer hitch demagntizers, automatic circumciers, tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and energizers, soffit panels, circuit brakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, calculators, generators, maatching salt and pepper shakers, horse dewormer, fighting gold, repulsor technology, pym particles, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosiiiiiiiissssssss, flying pigs, wild pigs, pigssssss innnnnn spaccceeeeeee, wilkins coffee, islands that walk like men, mood slime, chainsaws, saftey films, toner, donald duck abuse, Yoghurt Platinum, Clubmarine, Saltweens, Disco Dairy, Disco Duck, Lard, Trash Bag Wrestling, Superfast Jellyfish, The Gizmonic Institute, Cloning deboning, dethroning, stupid nintendo games, Rusty Shackleford, Molten Boron, SCTV, Squakabilly Taxi's, An Automatic Man, Wells for Boys, Flight Rings, decoder rings, olvatine, Krakoan Gates, Sealabs, Underwater Motor Scooters, Sex Bombs, Good Guy Dolls, The Last cult, Krustyburger,Chalk Tablet Towers, nerderotica, underwear, money, fat, hank.

The problem is he's got no more worlds to conquer: He's invested in everything, and thus can't make money on a NEW venture. Barks gets some great gags out of this too with Scrooge trying and failing to buy Gyro's newest gadget and a peanut stand, only to find out he OWNS both. It really shows that despite his horrifying wealth and influence.. scrooge can't ENJOY it. To him the fun's in the chase. The having's nice too, but the world just dosen't feel the same if there isn't another rainbow to chase, something I get as a book and film collector. It's great to have, but the looking is just as fun. It's something i'm sure most can relate to especially us nerds.

Thankfully Donald and the Boys just happen to drive by: their hunting arrow heads for 50 cents a piece over in the desert for Crazy Harry's House of Cultural Approritaion. That's Crazy Harry, the man with a snake on his face.

As you can guess this story has some dated bits: while Arrowheads are still treasured, I have one my grandpa gave me, it's not nearly as kosher to sell artifacts of someones' culture for fun and profit. Even as far back as 1980 Indy himself was doing it more for the joy of history and famously said it belongs in a museum.. and evne that's starting to slip as I saw on John Oliver last year. You can find his piece bellow.

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And of course they use the i word instead of native americans or indegenous peoples.

Which is annoying , but not suprising.

So our heroes go looking for Arrowheads out in the generic desert. Weirdly for Carl Barks this Desert.. isn't a specific place. There's just suddenly a giant desert outside Duckburg. I didn't notice when reading the story for this review as Barks still packs in nice detail and makes it feel real, with our heroes having to conserve water, brave dust storms and track using realistic methods where tribes may of hunted their game. For the record it was the Pueblo who were linked to this, primarily settling in new mexico. I normally woudln't be this harsh on research, I got that bit from wikipedia after all, but given both how much Barks was lauded for it and how much care he usually puts in, it's weird to see him drop the ball a bit

At any rate our heroes soon find a trail and along it some treasures they take in to town to get examined. The curator there reveals their from The Seven Cities of Cibola, seven cities made of gold and gleaming with treasure, similar to EL Dorado, based on real life rumors about lost cities that turned out to be adobe huts, something Donald brings up. Barks does find a clever way for the myth to still be true, and a shockingly modern one: given the people who found it were conquistadors and heard it through rumors, it makes sense that the people they were conquering and mistreating wouldn't tell them where the city REALLY was. It's not phrased that way, but it's still brilliant.

So our heroes decide, well Scrooge and the Boys decide Donald is just sorta swept along by the tide as usual, to go after the city, figuring the trail leads there. THey stop at a diner for some nondescript hamburgers.. and end up evedroppsed on as nearbye the Beagle Boys are kicked out of an Aid for the Poor Center for welfare fraud and are told hey hey why don't you get a job, which has aged like fine milk on the sidewalk. They naturally follow scrooge smelling money and trail our heroes. I do like the Beagle Boys Inc t-shirts they wear in this shirt, before beagle boys inc was bought by feel good inc in the mid 2000's.

Once our heroes get going Barks DOES make up for his previous non-descriptness as he cites actual locations along the trail such as big bluff and the colorado river. We also get a nice tone: normally the adventure is scrooge dragging our heroes along and being a real dick but here there's a real sense of camradery and excitment ala ducktales 2017. The boys gladly use their guidebook to help while Scrooge uses his experince, the guidebook finding them shade. Eventaully it can only go so far and they end up lost, as do their persuers. They refill the canteens but eventuallyt heir dry. It's a nice showing of the dangers of the desret and the realisim Barks really likes to use in his stories. These may be cartoon ducks but they can die just like anyone else… except of old age but you know

Our heroes fortunes don't get better when the beagles blindsight them.. but plan to just up and leave, having had enough fo the desert and having NOT stocked up on water due to being too busy persuing scrooge, leaving our heroes free to persue the cities unabated.. but near death if they do'nt find water soon. Thankfully they find an old spanish galleon and more importantly

That said I do love Donald's expression here. Barks is a master at those. It does provide our heroes with a way forward, as the logbook details both the ships survivors meeting people clad in gold and a clue about the way the ships pointing at long last our heroes reach the seven cities.. and the sight is truly gorgeous.

And inside are countless treasures, a great sequence as we see pools of coins, ruby arrowheads and most importantly an emerald statue.. set on a trap. Yes this is where the parts Indy homages come in, as it's also on a weight trap, though a far more elaborate one that will destroy the city if activated. IT's clever adn I can see why speilberg and lucas reused it and i'ts diffrent enoguh in the indy version to work as Indy tries to actually take the statue and uses clever manuvering.

At any rate we get to the climax and.. this is where the story falls apart for me: it starts well enough: the beagle boys show up, throw our heroes in a bricked up prison and star tlooting..a nd naturally stupidly trigger the trap leading to the second half of the equation for INdy's iconic opening

But again done diffrently.. with indy we actaully SEE it chase him, so Speilberg got the clear diffrence between inspiration and outright theft. He took the basic idea but made something fresh with it.

The ending… is what really weakens the story for me: everyone gets amnesia, no one remembers and the city remains buried, with scrooge not willing to go back for measly arrowheads. This ending… is all kinds of dumb. For one Scrooge talked to the professor man, he might follow up, and two.. ther'es no real reason for it. I get not wanting a white idiot to loot a fantastic city, that part's fine. Everything about the climax works … except the amnesia part. Yes scrooge could dig, but he could also damage everything or there could be nothing left. The amnesia seems tacked on because Barks coudln't be bothered to come up with an actual reason why Scrooge woudln't go back, when the trail coudl've been lost in a storm or something or the beagle boys destroyed it on the way so while Scrooge gets resuced, he has no way back. There are other ways.

Overall the Seven Cities of Cibola is a decent outing. It has a LOT of good stuff, the slow methodical apporach with little action but a lot of intrigue, the gorgeous city, and the threat not being fantastic traps or anythin gbut simply the heat and environment, and the comedy is on point, with Scrooge going from hunting arrowheads to hunting a lost city all wrapping together. Again it's really the amnesia ending that hurts it: without it this would easily be one of my favirotie scrooge tales, a well done caper that again is shockingly slow paced, but in a delebrate well done way. The ending just drops it a few knotchs in my eyes. It's still worth a look, just temper your expectations>

Next Time: Dun dunnn dunn dunn dunn, dun dunn dunn dun dun dun dun dunnn dunn dunn da da da da, da da da da dun dun dun dun da da da, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnn!

#indiana jones #carl barks #scrooge mcduck #donald duck #disney #the seven cities of cibola #huey duck #dewey duck #louie duck #the beagle boys #stephen spielberg

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thelaststarship · 1 year

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sonic x shadow pairing really should be called “shonic” simply because it automatically makes you do a sean connery impression rip king

#self #sonic the hedgehog #sonic x shadow #sonadow #pairing

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modernmoviereviews · 11 months

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Dr. No - A Modern Movie Review

Terence Young's 1962 film Dr. No is the first in the long running series of James Bond films. I have to admit, this is the first Bond film I have ever watched that doesn't star Daniel Craig as 007, but Sean Connery did NOT disappoint. That man exudes all the sex appeal, suaveness, and danger that I could hope for in a Bond.

Overall I have to say, the movie wasn't my favourite. As an avid Skyfall fan, I’m used to more intense fight scenes and dramatic lighting in visually rich scenes, maybe even a single complex female character. But despite the blatant sexism (did Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress) have a purpose besides to be hot?) and the fact that not much really happens until the last 20 minutes of the movie, of course it was a blast. As mentioned, Sean Connery is incredible to watch, spy movies are always fun no matter the quality, and as the first of many Bond films it sets up a lot of the classic tropes. Hearing Connery say “Bond, James Bond” made me silently shriek from excitement, I couldn’t help but clarify “shaken, not stirred” when he ordered a martini, and the first mention of SPECTRE had me hyped.

I would be lying if I said that the best part of the movie wasn’t seeing Bond be the rizzler that he is. I don’t know how smart he is (why would you drink the coffee the villain offers you??) or how much he cares about other people (rip Quarrel (John Kitzmiller), you didn't even want to be there), but I do know that this man FUCKS. Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) is a double agent who sets Bond up to die - he escapes the trap, smashes, and then sends her ass to jail. Hilarious. My man has one priority at all times and from this movie I have no reason to believe he has a sole reason for being a spy other than to get bitches. Again, the movie is quite sexist and a lot of the scenes of him with women are borderline uncomfortable, but at the end of the day it’s a movie in the 60s based on books from the 50s, I have to suspend disbelief a bit to enjoy it, okay?

There’s honestly not much else to say about this movie. It’s fun, it’s flirty, and I would do anything for Sean Connery in a suit.

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To clarify, I have difficulties making decisions and like to leave everything up to chance, so I have an ongoing list of movies I’d like to watch and I use a random number generator to pick what’s next. So for our next movie, I rolled 151/279, which is Rodrigo Cortés’ 2012 film, Red Lights.

#movie #movie review #movies #dr no #james bond #james bond 007 #sean connery #terence young

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nerdlunch · 1 year

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172 | OK Connery (1967)

Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger take a detour from the main James Bond series to watch Italy's OK Connery (aka Operation: Kid Brother) starring Sean Connery's younger brother as a famous secret agent's younger brother who's pulled into a spy caper. Thanks to the super popularity of Goldfinger and Thunderball, lots of Bond spoofs and rip-offs came out around this time, but OK Connery is unique for including iconic actors from the actual Bond movies, including Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, and Anthony Dawson. But is it any good? Our panel may not all agree.

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watching-pictures-move · 1 year

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Movie Review | Operation Kid Brother (De Martino, 1967)

I assume that the James Bond franchise was big enough that there were a number of obvious cash-ins alongside the Eurospy genre that it no doubt inspired. I'm not familiar with those to make any broad sweeping statements, but my guess is that none of them fall into as neat a proto-Bruceploitation template as this one. A lead actor who resembles the real deal? Check. A bunch of peripheral actors from the actual movies? Check. Discount versions of the same thrills? Check. Crazier and sometimes more fun? Sadly no.

But instead of Bruce (Lee), the guy we're ripping off here is Connery, and to this movie's credit, it does have a real Connery. Neil Connery, brother of Sean. What's interesting is that it doesn't try to pass him off as the original, but as the brother of the more famous secret agent, who in the universe of the movie, would be going by his real last name. (Although one must point out that Bond does as well, making him a pretty lousy secret agent in most respects.) Neil plays a plastic surgeon who also can read lips and has the power of hypnosis. Apparently he was a plasterer in real life, and I assume the screenwriters got confused and wrote in the plastic surgeon job in an attempt to make him feel more at ease onscreen. I also assume the hypnosis angle, which bears limited fruit in the pursuit of the mission, was an excuse to give the star a bunch of dramatic closeups in an effort to wring a better performance out of him. Neither is successful. If anything, the movie demonstrates the classic Bruceploitation lesson that you can't fake star power, no matter how much your actor looks like the real deal.

The movie is also not remotely thrilling, and this is an area where it compares unfavourably to Bruceploitation. It's still possible to do entertaining martial arts sequences on the cheap, but the more elaborate set pieces of the Bond movies are harder to replicate when you're pinching pennies. To be fair, the movie doesn't look impoverished, and we do bounce around different locations, although whatever travelogue qualities the movie might have attempted were not done justice by the awful transfer I watched on YouTube. But making up for that is a pretty nice Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai score, including a theme song replete with lush instrumentation and sometimes breathy, sometimes soaring vocals, as well as the actual Bond actors in the cast. (I assume there was nothing in their contract stopping them from acting in rip-offs.) We get Adolfo Celi and Bernard Lee doing more boring versions of their actual roles. But the ladies fare better, with Daniela Bianchi wearing any number of red or orange outfits that proved retina-scorching in the copy I watched, and Lois Maxwell, who is normally stuck behind a desk in the Bond movies, actually getting to go out into the field and get in car chases and shootouts. Now if we had a Moneypenny-centric rip-off, we'd be on to something.

#film #movie review #operation kid brother #ok connery #alberto de martino

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laresearchette · 1 year

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Friday, November 25, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: FANTASY FOOTBALL (Paramount +) ¡QUE DELICIOSO! (The Roku Channel) A ROYAL CORGI CHRISTMAS (W Network) 8:00pm JEFF DUNHAM: ME THE PEOPLE (CTV Comedy) 8:00pm WE’RE HERE (HBO Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? STEPPIN’ INTO THE HOLIDAY (Premiering on December 04 on CTV Life at 8:00pm) THE CROODS: FAMILY TREE (TBD - YTV) DESTINATION FEAR (TBD - DTour) FATAL FAMILY REUNION (TBD - Lifetime Canada) HOW DO THEY DO IT? (TBD - Science)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

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CBC GEM CALL THE MIDWIFE SEASON 10 HOLIDAY SPECIAL LIVING WILD: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Season 1a)

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DISNEY + STAR THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER

NETFLIX CANADA BLOOD & WATER (Season 3) GHISLAINE MAXWELL: FILTHY RICH

FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 4:45am: Wales vs. Iran (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 7:45am: Qatar vs. Senegal (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 10:45am: Netherlands vs. Ecuador (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 1:45pm: England vs. USA (TSN/TSN5) 8:30pm: Match of the Day

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 2:00pm: Flames vs. Capitals (TSN2) 2:00pm: Habs vs. Blackhawks (TSN4) 2:00pm: Leafs vs. Wild (TSN5) 3:00pm: Sens vs. Ducks (SN) 5:30pm: Penguins vs. Flyers (SN) 8:00pm: Blues vs. Lightning (TSN3) 8:30pm: Jets vs. Stars

PULSE (APTN) 7:00pm: Meet The Ukwehuwe Connection, a dance troupe from the Oneida Nation that showcases traditional Haudenosaunee dances. The group was formed by Frazer Sundown to raise awareness of his culture and show that the Oneida people are still here and still strong.

A GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS (CTV Life) 7:00pm: Hazel goes to spend the holidays in her hometown, where a romance begins to bloom with a local contractor who has been helping her father with their family bakery.

NCAA FOOTBALL (TSN2) 7:30pm: Florida vs. Florida State

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4) 7:30pm: Cavaliers vs. Bucks (SN NOW) 8:00pm: Lakers vs. Spurs (SN1) 8:00pm: Pelicans vs. Grizzlies (SN1) 10:30pm: Nuggets vs. Clippers

MARKETPLACE (CBC) 8:00pm: Testing the sizing of jeans; putting the safety of motorcycle helmets to the test; and eco-friendly alternatives to balloons.

RODEO NATION (APTN) 8:00pm: The Ponoka Rodeo is the last chance to qualify for the world championships in Las Vegas; veteran Bill T. Head knows what it takes to win, and his son tries to carry his legacy.

MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: When Noelle inherits her mother's house, she finds out that for the past few years her aging mother had been hiring professionals to decorate it for Christmas. Noelle tells the decorator that the deal is off, but he refuses to take no for an answer.

TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN… (CBC) 8:30pm: DJ, broadcaster and podcaster Alice Levine joins Richard for a 48-hour fling round the Estonian capital Tallinn. Over two maxxed out days, Richard and Alice rip round the city’s most see-able sights, summit the country’s highest structure, nosh at its top Restaurant and stroke Sean Connery’s face.

STORIES FROM THE LAND (APTN) 8:30pm: A chef and a knowledge keeper make traditional corn soup, and pass on the story of why corn soup is so culturally significant to the Indigenous people of southern Ontario.

THE PASSIONATE EYE (CBC) 9:00pm: The Climate Baby Dilemma: For a growing number of young people, the climate crisis is affecting decisions about whether or not to have kids

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 9:00pm

THE PROOF IS OUT THERE: SKINWALKER EDITION (History Canada) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Tony Harris travels to Skinwalker Ranch, a place known for strange alien encounters, while experts scrutinize some of the most compelling video evidence of UFOs.

DOULA (Crave) 9:00pm: A couple reluctantly hire a male doula to help them navigate the joys and pitfalls of modern pregnancy.

CANADA'S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS. THE WORLD (Crave 2) 9:00pm: Are you ready for the Snatch Summit? With an EXTRA special appearance by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

A PERFECT ENEMY (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: An architect's strange conversation with a mysterious young woman soon turns into something sinister and deadly.

CRIME BEAT (Global) 10:00pm: Detectives investigate leads in what they believe was a targeted killing; reporter Mark Carcasole reveals the twists and turns in the plot to kill Davis, and just how close to home it was.

BLOOD IN THE SNOW FILM FESTIVAL (Super Channel Fuse) 12:05am: The Devil Comes at Night: A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #marketplace #rodeo nation #travel man: 48 hours in...#stories from the land #the passionate eye #transplant #canada's drag race #crime beat #blood in the snow #fifa world cup #nhl hockey #ncaa football #nba basketball

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duranduratulsa · 9 months

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Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #actionadventure #indianajones #indianajonesandthelastcrusade #georgelucas #StevenSpielberg #HarrisonFord #seanconnery #RIPSeanConnery #denholmelliott #riverphoenix #RipRiverPhoenix #johnrhysdavies #bradleygregg #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest

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notgreat-notterrible · 1 year

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#4. 80's ski-movie villains

I’ve been sick so gimme a break alright. I minored in Film Studies, I might make a James Bond podcast or I might not.

I dug into some older James Bond and my takeaway is this: watch For Your Eyes Only (1981). There are 27 movies and this one is better than a lot of them. The Roger Moore version of Bond has very little traction among viewers my age and in my region (though I might even extend that sentiment to most of North America in general). My parents definitely preferred things like Jaws (1975) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) as young adults to anything Bond-related. Moore’s Bond is sometimes called “The Gentleman Bond,” and while it’s hard to make the distinction when all the actors wear the tux, it’s in the way Moore embodies the rank and title of “Commander Bond” no other actor (so far) has. The man can smoke a cigar and you can buy into his upper-crust Britishness as a Naval-officer-turned-intelligence-agent. Moore’s and Sean Connery’s Bonds can both stroll into a casino and turn on the charm at the bar, although Connery’s Bond is more likely to corner and grope you in a barn.

The James Bond you grew up with is usually your Bond. For me it’s always been Brosnan. The fact that I was too young to have seen him in other films only cemented it in my brain by making him pop up in other things as “Hey look it’s James Bond!” going forward well beyond his tenure as 007. Daniel Craig had a film career before Bond, and I watched Connery in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989) and Entrapment (1999) long before I checked out Dr. No (1962). Licensed movie tie-in videogames were a huge part of the industry and had their heyday when Brosnan was Bond then legit died out partway through Craig’s run.

In retrospect, Brosnan gets a bad rap, but that’s because the movies he was in more or less let him down. His Bond achieved a harmonious blend of suave, pretty-boy Bond (Moore) and sweaty killer (Timothy Dalton, Craig). Maybe he was too pretty because a few years later we got Craig’s Bond brutally drowning bad guys in mop buckets.

I watched Moore in Live and Let Die (1973), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy (1983). Most of his Bond films are less serious, rollicking adventure flicks. Not too far away from the Austin Powers takes on the genre. There’s a sequence in Octopussy where he dresses up as a clown to infiltrate an East German circus. Even in the more serious For Your Eyes Only there is a wild brawl between Bond and hockey players on the ice.

While The Spy Who Loved Me feels very much like an austere 70’s movie (it is one of Moore’s better outings as well) with fight scenes that look exaggerated like stage-fighting and sweeping large-scale shootouts that reminded me of old war movies like The Longest Day (1962), the jump to For Your Eyes Only was jarring. In a good way. The stunts feel dangerous and oftentimes spectacular, cuts are much quicker, and everything feels high-octane. The music pulses as bad guys rip through the ski resort dressed like 80’s jerks—very ski movie villain—except they have guns. It does feel as though this movie paved the way for so many of the action heavy hitters of that decade in terms of the action sequence.

It was also the most wrapped up in a Bond story I’ve ever been. Bond’s mission is not overly complicated: investigate a very bad man. His mission goes sideways when he crosses paths with a woman hellbent on revenge, and together they go from clue to clue, continent to continent, all while surviving various attempts on their lives. There is a twist and it blindsided me. I was 100% committed to the ride at that point.

I never thought of Bond movies as fun until I watched these ones. Connery Bond films are more about sneaking around and spying, Dalton and Brosnan’s films are actiony, and Craig’s emotional and gritty, Casino Royale (2006) arguably a response to the backlash of Die Another Day’s (2002) over the top silliness, and the successful Jason Bourne style of espionage thriller that dominated the mid 2000s.

I’m not saying that the next Bond needs to go back to being laidback and humorous, but Moore’s films caught me at the right time in my life. I’m less self-serious than ever before and I’m tired of being miserable all the time. Most of the time I want something dumb and fun. I wouldn’t have had the temperament to laugh at the ridiculousness of some of it when I was in my teens. There is no film I ever wish I’d discovered sooner. There is only now and there is maybe tomorrow, and that suits me just fine. The more you mature, the more you appreciate.

That seems to be a running theme here, right?

PS: I also watched Never Say Never Again (1983). Connery came back and it's not part of the "official" Eon-produced films. It's pretty rad and also very 80's. There's a fight scene like something out of Indiana Jones.

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